Wayne Brittain

Wayne Brittain
Personal information
Full name	Wayne Brittain
Date of birth	(1958-06-13) 13 June 1958
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
2001-2002	Carlton	46 (18-28-0)

Wayne Brittain (born 13 June 1958) is a former coach of the Australian Football League.

Career

In his playing career, Brittain played for Zillmere Eagles in the Queensland State League. He eventually suffered a back injury which ended his career.

Brittain took up coaching, and was an assistant coach at the Carlton Football Club under David Parkin. Brittain was credited with much of the club's success in the 2000 home and away season. Following Parkin's retirement at the end of 2000, Brittain became the senior coach of Carlton, serving in the role from 2001 until 2002. He took the club to sixth place in 2001, but crashed to last place in 2002, the first time Carlton had ever won the VFL/AFL wooden spoon. He was sacked at the end of the year and replaced by Denis Pagan.

Brittain went on to be an assistant coach at Richmond under Danny Frawley for the 2003 and 2004 seasons, leaving at the end of 2004 after Frawley was sacked. He returned to Queensland to coach his old club, the Zillmere Eagles in 2005, but was sacked by the club after being fined for abusing the umpires after a Zillmere loss. On 15 September 2008 He became an assistant coach of Brisbane Lions under Michael Voss.

Personal life

Wayne is the brother of former North Melbourne player Craig Brittain.

External links

Wayne Brittain's Profile at Blueseum

Sporting positions
Preceded by David Parkin	Carlton Football Club coach 2001-2002	Succeeded by Denis Pagan

Coaches of the Carlton Football Club

1902–1909: Worrall 1909–1911: Elliott 1912: Clark 1913: Wells 1914–1918: Clark 1919: Valentine 1920–1922: Clark 1922–1923: Clover 1924: Parratt 1925: Caldwell 1925: O'Brien 1926: Brew 1927: Clover 1928: Brew 1929–1934: Minogue 1935–1936: Maher 1937: Rowe 1938–1940: Diggins 1941–1955: Bentley 1956–1958: Francis 1959–1964: Hands 1965–1971: Barassi 1972–1975: Nicholls 1972; 1975: McKenzie 1976–1977: Thorogood 1978: Stewart 1978: Silvagni 1978–1979: Jesaulenko 1980: Jones 1981–1985: Parkin 1986–1989: Walls 1989–1990: Jesaulenko 1991–2000: Parkin 2001–2002: Brittain 2003–2007: Pagan 2007–2012: Ratten 2013–2015: Malthouse 2015: Barker 2016–: Bolton

Italics denote caretaker coach

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